We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for ...that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid tha...t evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found in the fact that no one is able... to obtain the truth adequately, while on the other hand, no one fails entirely, but everyone says something true about the nature of things, and while individually they contribute little or nothing to the truth, by the union of all a considerable amount is amassed. Therefore, since the truth seems to be like the proverbial door, which no one can fail to hit, in this way it is easy, but the fact that we can have a whole truth, and not the particular part we aim at shows the difficulty of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »